Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent official resigns over Iran war
Associated PressTop counterterrorism official Joe Kent official resigns over Iran war
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he "cannot in good conscience" back the Trump administration's war in Iran.
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Footage appeared to show the fire coming from a large air conditioning vent, as crews climbed to the roof to fight the blaze
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War in the Middle East: latest developments
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MP's demand improved safety procedures for hotels
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Israel targets more Iran leaders as allies reject Trump's calls for help
Israel says it killed Iran's top security official Ali Larijani, as America's European allies reject Trump's demands for help in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Trump’s counterterrorism chief, whose own wife was killed by ISIS, quits over Iran War saying Tehran posed ‘no imminent threat’
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Israel says killed Iran's security chief Larijani
Israel said Tuesday it had killed Iran's powerful national security chief, Ali Larijani, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling him the leader of "the gang of gangsters" that runs the Islamic republic."This morning we eliminated Ali Larijani, the boss of the Revolutionary Guards, which is the gang of gangsters that actually runs Iran," Netanyahu said in a televised statement.
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2 men found with hundreds of ants are charged with illegally dealing in wildlife in Kenya
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Ecuador's president rejects allegations that his government is bombing targets inside Colombia
Ecuador’s president on Tuesday rejected allegations that his country is bombing targets in neighboring Colombia as tensions escalate between the two South American nations. President Daniel Noboa said on X that his government “is fighting narco terrorism in all its forms” and “bombing places that serve as hideouts for those groups, of which many are Colombian," but only within Ecuadorian territory. Noboa was responding to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who on Monday accused Ecuador of bombing targets on Colombia’s side of the border.
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More flights canceled or delayed as weather, TSA staffing upend travel
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Top US security official quits, says Iran did not pose an immediate threat
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Colombia's Petro says bombings on Ecuador border left 27 charred bodies
March 17 (Reuters) - Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday that bombings which took place on the border with Ecuador have left 27 charred bodies, as his Ecuadorean counterpart, Daniel
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Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill soldiers, as shelters overflow
Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes on Tuesday, the Lebanese army said, as Israel carried out new raids and again ordered residents of vast parts of southern Lebanon to evacuate. The Lebanese military said three of its soldiers were killed in two Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon, while the Israeli army maintained its operations were not directed "against the Lebanese army" and said at least one of them was "under review".
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CBS News workers hold 24-hour walkout for new contract
Writers Guild of America East says management failed to offer fair wages and basic job protections
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Man accused of mother's murder faces retrial
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Judge blocks RFK Jr's changes to US childhood vaccine schedule
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Trump says he spoke to an ex-president who praised his Iran War. They all deny taking the call
Asked which of the four living ex-presidents had supposedly praised his chaotic war effort, Trump said: ‘I can’t tell you that’
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NASA will provide live coverage as two American astronauts are due to spend hours Wednesday, March 18, on a spacewalk outside the ISS.
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Reform UK elects third leader after racism scandal
Martin Murray now leads the controlling group at Staffordshire County Council.
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Focus must remain on Ukraine despite Iran war, PM says
Starmer says Russia cannot benefit from the conflict in the Middle East, as he meets the Ukrainian leader in No 10.
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Turkey ready to host next round of Russia-Ukraine talks, Fidan tells Lavrov
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Tommy Robinson’s legal troubles: a timeline of charges and convictions
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Council plans building buy amid Town Hall problems
A number of staff will be transferred to Resolution House which the council is planning to buy.
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Israel says it killed Iranian security chief Ali Larijani in air strike
The deaths of Larijani and the head of the paramilitary Basij force have not been confirmed by Iranian authorities.
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Baby's murder 'could not be foreseen', report says
Daniel Gunter was jailed for life after he killed his two-week-old son in a hospital.
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Aspiring female Zambian politicians asked for sexual favours, official says
These reports harm attempts to close the wide gender representation gap in Zambia, activists say.
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Waltz Reveals Strategic Military Moves Amid Escalating Iranian Oil Threats, Says Trump Warns of More Strikes on Kharg Island Oil Hub
Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said that Donald Trump is keeping potential moves against Iran wide open, including the possibility of striking oil facilities on Kharg Island. The comments landed as IRGC threat message circulated alongside fallout from Israeli attacks on Iranian fuel infrastructure that have already rattled crude markets and raised concerns in Washington about price spikes and blowback. Speaking with CNN, Waltz said, "Well President Trumps not going to
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EU rejects Trump's calls for deployments to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Despite Trump's repeated calls, the EU foreign policy chief says "nobody is ready to put their people in harm's way in the Strait of Hormuz."
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US intelligence official Joe Kent quits over Trump's war in Iran
NCTC Director Joe Kent called President Donald Trump the victim of a 'misinformation campaign' that pushed the United States into war with Iran.
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Family 'beyond devastated' after meningitis death
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Flood-hit county to get £89m from government
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Woman Reveals How She Watched Her Dad Stab Her Mom 36 Times but Still Had to Live with Him After He Left Jail
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Erika Kirk accepts ‘highly suspicious’ new job from Trump
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Secret tunnel to reopen after being hidden for 50 years
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Those seeking to sue ICE for injuries or damage face an uphill battle
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UN says more than 36,000 Palestinians displaced by Israeli settlement drive
BERLIN, March 17 (Reuters) - More than 36,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced over a year by Israeli settlement expansion and associated violence, the U.N. human rights office
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Cuba's latest blackout underscores its deepening economic crisis and tensions with US
Large parts of Cuba were without power on Tuesday after its third blackout in four months underscored the island's deepening energy and economic crises and rising political tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Cuba's aging grid has drastically eroded in recent years, leading to daily outages and an increase in significant blackouts. The government blames its woes on a U.S. energy blockade after Trump in January warned of tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba.
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